As someone born in Brazil of a French father and an American mother, married to a Swede and living in Mozambique now, nothing in Erin Meyer’s The Culture Map particularly surprised me. Having to navigate cross-cultural…
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Teaching English in China
My name is Lisa. In my six years teaching in China, I had the opportunity to work with people of all ages and backgrounds. As I talked with more and more Chinese people, certain patterns…
The Magic Garden of Languages
Recently I said to myself: „When you have your next birthday and you want to commiserate with yourself because of the years that have gone so quickly and because you have grown old, try to…
Chinese Pronunciation
My name is Xiaoming. I teach Chinese pronunciation to English speakers. First we should get to know something about Chinese. The Chinese language can be divided into two parts. One is the letters we use…
Don’t Kill Productivity in a Meeting
Jan needed IT managers from around the world to give reports and react to proposals within strict time frames. The pressure was worsened by the variety of English abilities and accents. Jan found himself as…
Business Language Consulting
So much more than a language lesson! What if your language consultant was also an experienced business coach? What if every turn of phrase helped turn your communication into a success? And what if the language you’re mastering…
Save Time, Save the Environment
How long is your commute every day? I commuted a lot between 2000-2010. My Prague travel-to-work time in 2009 totalled 780 hours. If I had been teaching for those hours, rather than sitting in the car…
ESOL Experience from England
My name is Eva Griesova. Between 2007-2013 I worked as an ESOL tutor at Stafford college in England. I always wanted to be an English teacher, but I had never dreamed of teaching in the UK….
Make It Snappy – A Conference Room
Make it snappy is an idiom used to encourage someone to hurry up. However, snap is also the colloquial noun for an informal photograph. So when LOS make it snappy this means an opportunity to improve your language skills by studying a selection of pictures personal…